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Thanks to the CPANtesters Wiki , It was quite straightforward to setup my Windows testing box. Typing ' cpan install CPAN::Reporter ' was all needed, installing the dependencies along the way. As I planned to do some smoking tests, I also had to install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker : ' cpan install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker ' Some modules don't play well with (automatic) testing, so configuring distroprefs is probably a good idea : After entering "C:\Documents and settings\UserName\Mes Documents\" you only have to create .cpan/prefs to put there the YAML files downloaded from   DAGOLDEN's site Then typing ' o conf init test_report ' inside the cpan shell and answering the few configuration questions should complete the process.   Now every module installed (or just tested) will produce a report that you can send (or will be automatically sent according to your setting) and entering a smoke test is just a matter of typing : perl -MCPAN::Repo...

My initial intent was too install VmWare Server (which is free (as beer), and that I used a long time ago with great satisfaction) on my Ubuntu boxes. But as it appeared that my kernel (and all kernels 2.6.30 and above) now requires an unofficial additional patch to fix the VmWare Server installer * , I decided to play it safe (or at least simple) and install the VmWare Player 3.1.0 instead. * See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/215985 for more information The VmWare Player install went fine, and installing an XP virtual machine was just a matter of minutes. For some reason NAT was not working out of the box, so I only changed the VM network setting to Bridge and was then able to download Strawberry Perl 5.12.0.1. Sadly my attempt to install also release 5.10.1.2 in the same VM failed miserably (the installer detecting an higher version)... If anyone managed to get (simply) 2 version on the same Windows box, I'd be glad to hear how... Now I still have to install...